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Solo on TV, Again ( was re: GRM/best )

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Subject: Solo on TV, Again ( was re: GRM/best )
From: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:58:21 -0500 (EST)
Rich Fletcher wrote...
> And for my standard nonsequitur, and since Per brought my name into
> this,- someday we'll get autocrossing on TV, but only as an adjunct to
> something else.  It's just not visually interesting enough to John Q.
> Public such that it warrants its own 30-minute feature slot.

   I could buy that explanation... if I hadn't just seen "Timbersports" on
TV several times this weekend, again.

   Someone still needs to explain to me, like I'm a six year old; how fat,
hairy guys standing stock still with ear-splitting saws chewing up
perfectly good logs for no good reason is significantly more "visually
interesting" than autocrossing, especially ProSolo.  Okay, occasionally
they show fat, hairy guys using an axe.

   Or is it just that the market for performance logging equipment is so
much larger than the automotive market?

   The Chicago Region has shown a home-made, unedited solo video at their
Auto Show booth; JQP loved it.  Every autocross site I've been to that has
JQP traffic nearby has them pulling over and/or gawking out the window to
the point that I worry more about accidents there than on the course.

--
 D a v i d  H i l l m a n
 hillman@planet-torque.com

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